New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1923, Page 8

4 | - STRONGEST TEAMS IN WEST SHOWING LITTLE AS YANKS RUSH TOWARD THE PENNANT Cleveland and Detroit Missing Great Opportunity to Gain On Leaders—Athleties and Hugmen Both Win— Giants Take Rubber From Pirates — Phillies Drop | Sensational Game to Boston in 14th Inning—Cubs Drop Another, | New York, May 17,—The Cleveland Indians and Detroit Ti- gers, the strongest wesvern pair of the American league are not making hay while the cold sun of a miserable May shines, While the New York Yanks and Philadelphia Athletics, who and points in nearly every roll of the ball, the two strong western teams are failing. To give the Yanks a tussle when they come east Cleveland and Detroit should now be playing winning ball but neither is, The Yanks and Athletics kept on winning vesterday, the for- mer beating St. Louis 4 to 1 and the latter the Indians 5 to 0. The openings of the Washington-Chicago and Boston-Detroit series were prevented by the weather, Grimm Keeps Tt Up, | — Charles Grimm, Pirate first base- | man, intent upon establishing a new record for consecutive games hitting, got two of the four hits allowed yes- terday by long John Scott of the Glants and now his string is 25, The Glants took the rubber game of the -lmnnn. d series from the Pir- ates, 6 to and now take on Cin- cinnati, which should not be too much How They Line up ‘I in Four Leagues trouhle to the New Yorkers, Thel Cincinnati-Philadelphia game was N.“onfll Leag“‘ postponed hecanse of rain giving the| Yester - X % S ‘nlm Games ll»n‘in a clean sweep of a two game New York 6, Pittsburgh 2. e, Boston 7, 8t. Louls 6, (14 inning §t. Louls comes to Brooklyn today | pro th ' o8 B0 By with the earmarks of being the n strongest of the western National| Cincinnati at Philadeiphia, rain. teams at this stage, having taken | b SSe three out of four from Philadelphia | standlug of {:‘f ““}" o and two out of three from Bnnlon.i\:ew THek "' ” _'a'l" They dropped a bitterly fought 14 % ;”' . i inning struggle yesterday to Bnuton,"l,l'" iD" “h" -1 12 .;"n 7 to 6. Southworth's home run twin- |1 1Usburgh . . 18 12 <0201 ning for the Braves. I'.lnt‘lnl\fl" 12 12 500 The Chicago Cubs swing into the ChiCago .. 12 14 82 last lap of a disastrous tour, opening | ';:'::";':m ” ;: ::: inst Philadelphia today. The | s 880 an P | Philadelphia 716 304 Brooklyn Robina trounced thé Cuhs 8 to 2, making it three out of again, Games Today. S AP TS Pittsburgh at Boston. 8t. Louis at Brookiyn. AMERICAN LEAGUE Cincinnati at New York, Chicago at Philadelphia. Cleveland Falls Cleveland, 0., May 17. — Eddie Rommell held Cleveland to six hits, half of which went to Jamieson yes- terday, and the Philadelphia Athletics won the first game of the series, § to 0. American League Yesterday's Results, New York 4, St. Louls 1. Philadelphia 6, Cleveland 0. i (it L po. a e| Other games postponed, rain. Matthews, ef. I R T TR ) Dykes, 1b. . (e et A W The Standing. Perking, ¢. . Wt i SR ki) w 1 P.C Hauser, 1b. (RS T S A e G5 Welch, rf. . 2 2 0 o o/ New York .. .17 8 | f;nl(‘;fl‘rl!'. ) ”; ]9 E-“ : 'l‘ Cleveland 15 11 577‘1 MeGowan, 1f. . 3 ) Riconda, If. o o 1 1 ofFPhiladelphia . 13 10 566 Tommell, p. 1 2 o &5 1|Detroit . 138 18 500 - —[8t. Louls . 1 18 458 2 *! Washington 9 13 409 r. h. po. a. e |Chicago 9 13 409 Jamieson, 1f. .. 0 3 4 0 0|Boston . 7 13 850 Wambsganas, 2b. B0 e 8 Bpeaker, cf. 0 1 3 0 0 " Brower, 1h. 07 D0 0 Games Todsy Summa, rf. : 3' } : ;v ‘Washington at Chicago. flomel), 88, Philadelphia at Cleveland, ol 0 1 1 % 3 New York at 8t. Louls. 0 0 0o 2 o DBoston at Detroit. 0 o 0 0 L PSRN ! 2 1 0 0 il International Le *Gardner . o 0 0 xConnolly DU nternationa ague . 30 6 8132 Yesterday's Games RN for Qeorion lo Th Baltimore 8, Toronto 0. Batt t th, Claveiand —orooaen ot 0" na0 000 oon—n| Other games postponed, rain. Philadelpbia 000 003 110—5 Two basa hits, Ro erkina, Speaker; home run, Welch; stolen hnse, McGowan; L] S{m‘q‘lvlng. L. P.C sacrifices, Wambsganss, Bewell; double . 3 WO plays, Rommell, Parkine to Hauser; left on|Rochester ,....... 10 1] 1792 z:]n-, Philadelphia 6, Cleveland 11; bases on | Baltimore ........ 16 9 640 ls, off Rommell ; hits, off Coveleskis £5in 5 2-3,innings, off Morton 2 In 1 1.3| Buffalo .. I L innings, nv’ smith 1 in 2 innings: struck | Toronto . 10 1 476 out, by Rommell 2, hy Coveleakle 5; losing ' Jersey City . . 11 18 458 pitcher, Coveleskle; umpires, Dineen and|Newark 9 12 429 Nallin; time, 1:44, 2 3 2 > o el Reading .. 0 14 301 New York 4, St. Lonis 1 Syracuse .. 18 280 8t. Louis, May 17. -— New York scored four runs in the sixth inning Ralnmorefl:tm're':ro’l:td:" ¢ and defeated St. Tou t ( : T ran - DUk 4k Jersey City at Buffalo. v 1, in the first game of the season be. Newark at Syracuse. . e twomt:aanr.k. Reading at Rochester. ~‘ ab. r. h po. a e - 2 00 ey Eastern League 4 0 n 1 n 0 Meusel, f. ety Yesterday's Games Behang, ©. {0 3 & o §| Harttord 6 Pitesfleld 2. X e YR T S A R | Albany 2, New Haven 0. Beott, ss. L IR EN R E B | Other games postponad wet grounds. (Continued on Following Page). The Smr}hg. R e T | w. L. Talk of Dempsey-Firpo |New Haven . SHe 2aq | Hart Bout in South America | (o, . Buenos Aires, May 17—Juan Homs, | gpringhield 7 who said he represented Tex Rickard |\gaterbury 8 has arrived in this city to ses whether | yjbany 1 it would be possible to stage a bout pittsfieid 11 between Jack Dempsey and Luls gridgeport 11 Firpo here. E——— Games Today. New Haven at Hartford. Waterbury at Springfield. Albany at Worcester, Bridgeport at Pittsfield. KID KAPLAN — S, DANNY FRUSH AT PILZ'S TONIGHT| Round by Round | Single palr of rabbits can have a milllon descendants in four years. —— All Makes %n.rs || VESTERYEARS REPAIRED an [ OVERHAULED IN SPORT Cadillacs a Specialty AUTHORIZED NASH= | T YearAeo | SERVICE STATION |, % o "nanager. signed with | | Terre Haute as an infielder. | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, T T T THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1923, SHELBY MONT., ON BUSY DAY AND DEMPSEY'S QUARTERS So this is Shelby! tana oil belt, But it is! Doesn’t look any different than any other little town in the northern Mon- | pest gamen of the season. It's celebrating the Fourth of July with a world's championship lead the western invasion of the junior circuit are gathering moss ! tic exhibition in which Jack Dempsey and Tom Gibbons will play the leading roles, Heru gilis- The picture below is an exterior view of the municipal market hall at Great Falls, Mont., where, according to present plans, Dempsey will go through his final training for his bout on the Fourth of July. LUTHER LEAGUE OPENS UP FOR SEASON ON SATURDAY Wil Clash Bristol-Forestville Team With Last Year's Champs at Ellis Street Diamond. The Luther League baseball season will officially open on Saturday when the New Rritain team clashes with the Bristol-IForestville nine at Ploneer diamond on Ellis street at 2 P m. This should be a good game, for al- | though New Britain won the title last year, Forestville was the runner up, and strengthened this year by several Bristolites should be even stronger. On Friday night the Lutherans will hold a final practice on the Ellis street grounds. Following is the league schedule: May 19--Middletown at Hartford. Bristol at New Britain. May 26—New DBritain at Middle- {town. Hartford at Bristol. June 2—Bristol at Middletown. New | Britain at Hartford. June 9-——Middletown ain, Bristol at Hartford. June 10—Hartford at Middeltown. New Britain at Bristol. June 23-—Middletown at Hartford at New Britain. Five Leading Batsmen In Each Major League National League, G. AB. R. H. PC. 85 17 at New Brit-| Bristol. ‘Wheat, Brook. 23 Grimm, Pitts, 25 89 24 37 .416 Bottomley, St. L. 27 110 25 45 .400 Hornsby, St. L. 22 80 26 82 .400 Frisch, N. Y. 26 111 26 43 .387 American League, G. AB. R. H. PC. Heilmann, Det. 21 76 17 39 .513 Jamieson, Cleve. 25 97 20 36 .371 Rice, Wash. 20 70 14 29 .367 Miller, Phila. 22 77 16 28 .364 Burns, Boston 20 77 10 28 .364 HAIR STAYS COMBED, GLOSSY “Hair-Groom” Keeps Hair Combed—Well-Groomed Millions Use It—Fine for Hairl w=Not Sticky, Greasy or Smelly J. B. Moran Twenty-Five Years Ago. On May 17, 1808, Hughie Jennings, GARAGE second baseman for Daltimore, failed to get hit against Philadelphia, Baiti- 813% CHURCH ST, Tel. 1354 more winning, 9 to 5. | of “Hair-Groom” from for a few cents and unruly or sha g - Get a any drug: make even stubborn, pooed hair stay combed all any style you like. the | 9| Cornell-Colgate (rain). day in| TRADE SCHOOL WORKING HARD FOR TWO BIG GAMES Go to Torrington Next Wednesday and on Saturday Play College Preps in New Haven, BOY CUBS WIN TWO | Defeat All Saints and the Elihu Bur- ritt Junior High School Teams Same | Day. | The Cubs, one of the city's junior| baseball organizations, are an ambi- | tious crew for yesterday they took| The local trade school baseball nine ‘:nd:::*:t opponents, and handed both) |is putting in a week of extra hard In the first game they downed the| | practice in preparation for two big Flihu Burritt Junior High team 17-9.|games for next week. On Wednes- |Salmon, thelr piteher, fanned thr@e‘dn, they journey to Torrington and in one inning. Baker and Darrow cross bats with the High school nine hit hard, while for the losers Weston |of that place. This team recently de- and McCarthy did well. The scog:: feated Hotchkiss school—a feat €.| which no High school team has done ‘Cubs 000 717 200-~17 21 2 for years. The following Saturday the |E. B. 8 008 181 100—9 10 3|jgcal traders have their biggest game | Over the All Saints’, the Cubs Wwon | of this season when they meet the |14-2. Makowsky pitched this game Colieglate Preparatory school of New i | | and held the All Saints’ in the palm | Haven at the Elm city. The “Prep” Hits by Houck and boys have lost but one game this sea- while Kupec, Baker of his hand. Salmon featured, and Hopkins flelded well. The score:|a win will be a big boost for the lo- r. h. e.lcals, Bcholastic difficulties have made All Saints’ .. 000 200 000— 2 6 1|gome changes necessary, but in prac- Cubs vovuns 123 300 05x—14 15 0|tice they have worked out extremely smooth, Capt. Anderson and Eric Anderson have been shifted to their old posj- tions, second and short respectively and Bulmahn, a southpaw has been iplaced on the initial sack. The latter |1ad, who is developing fast both in the fleld and at bat, is expected to surprise the critics when seen in ac- tion. The outer garden patrol will consist of Conlin in left, Herold in center, and Nelson in right. Andeen, Kania, and Vettorello are all ready to take a turn on the rubber while Mil- ler will do the backstop work. The locals are exceptionally well fortified with good substitutes this season. The game with St. Thomas sched- uled for last Saturday, which was won by Jupiter Pluvius, will be played | The Cubs ne™ have won five out| |of six games and want to arrange io!her games, eswocially for Friday and Sunday. K. Saunders, Tel. 522-5, |1s the manager, COLLEGE BASEBALL Harvard 8, Lafayette 7. Syracuse 5, Clarkson 1. Colby 8, Springfleld 1. Holy Cross 4, Yale 0. Boston College 8, Tufts 4. | Lowell Textile 15, Clark 3. | Brown 8, Trinity 1. Villanova 17, Muhlenberg 0. Princton 10, Dartmouth 4. F. and M. & Swarthmore 7. Bowdoin 11, Maine 1. | Georgetown 5, Navy 0. June Oth. a Oh, Man! : ) 2 Ao i b | O L GOWNG FISHING | NO-I'M Tiis SPRING T/GoinGg To PoP- LooKIT WHEE ! ISN'T 1T A BEAUTY -- LISTEN To THE PRETTY MUSIc N OH MARY'. THAT SPINN | | i WALKER AND TUNNEY WIN THEIR MATCHES IN CHICAGO — KID KAPLAN FIGHTS TONIGHT CHURCH l.EAGUE SERIES BEG!NTHIS SATURDAY ~TRIPLE PLAY STAGED BY ST. LOUIS — DEMPSEY-FIRPO BOUT IN SOUTH AMERICA?—LEGION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JULY 4 TITLE SCRAP ain St. | son and that to Yale freshmen, so! PLAY GOLF WHAT | FounND k‘ OUT IN THE GARAGE WAS LOOWING FOR LAST SPRING 1 C‘ WESTERN COWBOY BLOODIES WALKER’S NOSE BUT CHAMP IS EASILY HIS SUPERIOR ‘PLAINVILLE-TORRINGTON Mm, Veteran of 150 GAME S SET POR SUNDAY, Ring Battles, Knocked | Nelehbring Vilages Wil Play o Down Twice For First | Time in His Career Rockwell Field and Wil Wear Their New Outfta R'gosh, The Plainville baseball team will meet the strong Torrington AREresa- ’ | tlon on Rockwell's Field next Bunday |In Prelim. Tlll‘ln.y. Fight- |in what promises to be one of the | ing Eight Rounds With The Plain: | ville aggregation atarted the season off with a bang against the Alpha' s Fields Colored Stars of Hartford last Broken Hand, Eams| Bun and romped away with a { victory to the tune of 9 to 2. ot| Newspaper Decision. ] no time were the colored boys press- ing the town team, altbough they were showing a good lot of speed in their flelding. The Plainville lineup strengthened considerably for nen week's battle, according to an an-| nouncement by Manager Roy French. Chicago, May 17.~Mickey Walker | of Paterson, N. J, the world's wel. | terweight champlon, won in a lfl-‘ round bout last night but in Cowboy Padgett of Dolores, Colo, eneoun. | |A number of heavy sluggers will be'tered a veteran able to assimilate all | {added to the roster and the perma- the punishment dealt out and bore in | nent lineup will be chosen after Mxl‘ for more, | Sunday's game. Walker knocked Padgett off his | The team Wil be seen for the first feot in the first and fourth rounds, | time in their new outfits of gray with| the first upsets for the westerner mi maroon stockings and hats to match, | nearly 150 ring battles, and the fans are preparing to turn out| He fought as it infuriated after the in large numbers to witness the first | knockdowns and, rushing the chm-l real battle of the season. A go0od | plon to the ropes, bloodied his nose, | number of fans turned out last Sun-| but was unable to get home a telling | day to witneas the game, but the|plow., At the end Padgett was trying | weather and the uncertain 1ooks of | hard to fight back but Walker was | the sky served to keep many more| easily his master. away, | Gene Tunney of New York, Amer. | Games are being booked for the re-'jcan light heavywaight champion, | mainder of the season With some of [ broke his right hand in the second { the fastest teams in the state. Among| round of A 10-round bout with Jim- | | those who are arranging for games my Delaney of St. Paul but fighting . with the Plainville aggregation arel entirely with his left hand, scored so | the Norwich Btate Sans torium team,) peay {ly in the late rounds newspaper. the Middletown Kaceys, Winsted | ynen gave him a shade victory. 14 Kaceys, Colored Glants of New Ha- e o) | ven, Norwich town team, Willimantic 'ESTE o and several others in and around A8 HORENS Neis, Dodgers will be Bridgeport. Manager French is ar- 1 ranging a schedule and he hopes to| Southworth, Braves . 1 ,he able to publish this shortly. Welch, Athletics 1 . 7 { Pirates Release Twirler Houlp, I Leedent 0 h FH T 3;]}::ums. ll’!hll! Ceeies .1: H i ams, Browns ... . ERCHNEY to nt Team Hartnett, Cubs .. . 4 | Pittsburgh, May 17. — Pitcher| Hornsby, Cards . 4 George Oeschger today was released Blades, Cards . .4 under option by the Pittsburgh Na- Grimm, Pirates sy tionals to the Flint, Mich., club {n| Miller, Cubs ... .4 the mint league. He is a brother of| Ruth, Yankees 4 Joe Oeschger of the Boston Braves, Mekon, Phils .. 4 From One of Best to One of The Worst, is Career of Al. Mamaux New York, May 17.—The passing of list was Mamaux's fate in 1817. His Al. Mamaux, veteran Brooklyn pitcher/arm went bad and he won but 2 from baseball's big top recalls algames and lost 11. career that reached suddenly thef Sold to Brooklyn in 1918 Wilbert topmost heights of brilliance only Lo;}‘(obertlen, Dodger pilot, werked pa- have its star dimmed as quiekly as!tiently to restore Mamaux's effective- medlocrity by a series of misfortunes. ness and in 1919 and 1920 he di After hanging up a sensatienal played some of his old cunning aiding record in college ranks, Mamaux was|Brooklyn to capture the pennant in' signed by Pittsburgh in 1918. Two|the latter year. But his arm again years of seasoning ripened him for | troubled him in 1921 when he did not a brilliant campaign in 1915 when he|work a full game all year. Last year won 21 and lost 8 games, ranking he worked but one complete game. third in effectiveness among National| This year his pitching arm was league moundsmen. An operation for|slightly injured as a result of being appendicitis stopped his streak a|thrown when the ship on which he) month before the close of the season | was bound for training camp collided | but the following year he showd&d only with another boat in the New York slightly less ability winning 21 and|harbor. He failed to round into con- losing 165. dmon and the Dodgers released him From a place among the leadlnx outright to the Bridgeport club of boxmen to the bottom of the nnkln“the Eastern league, | BRIGGS | MaNY'S THE BASS I'VE CAUGHT WITH THAT BABY — THAT S MY oLD SPINNER Hook . THAT'S The owe ) YES: WHEN el VAR HENNINGS /SHALL WE er | ¢ START SAVE ME BAcKING ALL YoUR | FISHING d